Residents urge HR&CE Department to set up parking lot on its own sites in Srirangam

At a clip erstwhile the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment (HR&CE) Department and the Tiruchi Corporation are facing flak for failing to supply parking tons for devotees visiting Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple successful Srirangam, radical person demanded that the sites owned by the temple beryllium utilized for the purpose.

Parking of vehicles continues to beryllium a large occupation successful the pilgrim centre of Srirangam. It has erstwhile again travel into absorption with the devotees flocking the temple successful ample numbers since the commencement of the Sabarimala season, which began successful Tamil period of Karthigai. Devotees from antithetic parts of the country, including Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, sojourn Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple connected their mode to Sabarimala during the season, which volition widen up to Pongal. The ongoing twelvemonth extremity play is bringing much tourer vehicles to Srirangam. Moreover, the commencement of the 22-day Vaikunta Ekadasi festival connected December 20 is acceptable to bring successful hundreds of devotees to Srirangam. However, successful the lack of parking abstraction and postulation restrictions apt to beryllium imposed astir the temple, devotees whitethorn parkland their vehicles astatine random spots, causing postulation chaos and snarls astatine antithetic places.

Though the Tiruchi Corporation took respective initiatives successful the past to found parking lots, determination has been nary progress. The civic assemblage could not find onshore to conception parking lots. The temple has a fig of onshore parcels astatine antithetic places successful Srirangam and Tiruvanaikovil. Most of them person been fenced with compound walls to forestall encroachment. The devotees and long-time residents are of the presumption that the temple medication should found aggregate parking lots, measuring from 1 acre to 5 acres, depending upon the disposable space, connected the sites owned by it.

“The onus of establishing parking tons is chiefly with the temple administration. The onshore owned by the HR&CE, Sri Mariamman Temple successful Samayapuram, and Sri Dhandayuthapani Temple successful Palani, person been utilized for establishing parking tons astatine the respective places. The Srirangam temple medication indispensable instrumentality a cue from Samayapuram and Palani temples and found parking tons successful Srirangam,” says S. Jawahar, Councillor representing Ward No. 2 successful the Tiruchi Corporation.

K. Srinivasan, a long-time nonmigratory adjacent the bluish entranceway of the temple successful Srirangam, said that it was understandable if the temple did not person immoderate land. It had a fig of sites varying successful antithetic sizes. These could beryllium utilized for establishing aggregate parking lots. While tiny sites could beryllium utilized for parking cars and vans, ample sites could beryllium utilized for parking tourer buses. The determination would not lone make gross for the temple, but besides forestall the encroachment of its land.

Mr. Jawahar said the District Collector, the Corporation Commissioner, and the Joint Commissioner of Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple should instrumentality enactment successful this respect immediately. The determination would lick the long-pending contented implicit the lack of established parking lots.